A Dubai princess who has been the topic of concern from a United Nations panel after being seized making an attempt to flee the sheikhdom in 2018 appeared in a social media put up early Monday that described her as being in Spain on a “European holiday”.
An Instagram picture revealed by a lady recognized in British media as former Royal Navy member Sioned Taylor reveals Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum at Adolfo Surez Madrid Barajas Airport.
Taylor’s caption, punctuated by a smiley face emoji, learn: “Great European holiday with Latifa. We’re having fun exploring!” Comments by Taylor acknowledged the situation of the picture, which match different pictures of the airport.
Asked about Sheikha Latifa, Taylor wrote in one other remark “she is great” with a thumbs-up emoji.
Taylor, the United Arab Emirates’ embassies in London and Madrid, in addition to the federal government’s Dubai Media Office, didn’t instantly reply to requests for remark Monday from The Associated Press.
Taylor posted pictures of Sheikha Latifa in May at two native Dubai malls as effectively.
The photographs’ pedestrian captions belie the truth that United Nations consultants and human rights activists had known as on Dubai’s ruler, Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, to offer data on his daughter.
Sheikha Latifa, 35, had tried to flee the nation in 2018 solely to be detained by commandos in a ship off India.
Videos launched in February by the BBC had Sheikha Latifa describing herself as being in a villa that “has been converted into a jail”.
The dramatic would-be sea escape and its aftermath intruded into the fastidiously managed picture maintained by the household of Sheikh Mohammed, who’s believed to have a number of dozen youngsters from a number of wives. Some of his little children determine prominently in native media and on-line, however others are not often seen.
Sheikh Mohammed’s household life once more turned a public matter in 2020. Then, a British choose dominated the sheikh had carried out a marketing campaign of worry and intimidation towards his estranged spouse and ordered the kidnapping of two of his daughters, one in all them Sheikha Latifa.
The ruling got here in a custody battle between Sheikh Mohammed and his estranged spouse Princess Haya, the daughter of the late King Hussein of Jordan.
Sheikh Mohammed additionally serves because the vp and prime minister of the hereditarily dominated United Arab Emirates, a federation of seven sheikhdoms on the Arabian Peninsula.